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William Kentridge in his studio, drawing typewriters
I first saw William Kentridge’s work – drawings and films – in a special exhibition devoted to him and his works at the Smithsonian, in D.C. I remember walking in and coming to an abrupt stop. And staring. At his immense, largely black & white drawings. At what for me at the time was the hallucinatory and compelling nature of his images and imagery. Images of suffering. Of corruption. Of greed. Of pollution. And of what, for lack of better way of putting it, were the transformations that seemed to be happening in his drawings, in his prints – and then later in his films. Things morphing into other things. People mutating….men becoming women….women becoming men….objects becoming.… ‘alive’.
From "Stereoscope", 1999
It was mind-boggling stuff. It blew me away. The films even more than the still images.
Kentridge standing in front of one of his drawings
Brief pause for the dry, biographical facts and info for those who don’t know. William Kentridge, born in the 1950’s, is a South African artist known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. The films are made by what I think is a relatively unique process: he makes a drawing….he
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Another in the Postcard series describing the long journey of two people to find each other from opposite sides of the world. Using a compressed mixture of text and visuals found in the simple postcard form, a series of which are sent through the mails. I haven’t discovered how long a period of time the story will cover or where it will go or how it will end. I’ve added a second text component to the card – the journal of the young woman, plus her handwritten text scribbled atop the picture. Her message reads in part . . “you may laugh at me for the ‘well life in early time’, the well means just enough to eat and wear, not like you. We are the poor country especially in the early 1960’s. We live in different situation of society and condition of economics. You are the West, I am the East. Although I like you and am feeling well of you, I still have some fear when I think of you.”
multiple cameras, computer, scanner, printer, inks.
assemble separate photos, layer & superimposed, print out, ink detail and textures. size is 24 x 36.